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<p>
        This tutorial program introduces asio by showing how to perform a blocking
        wait on a timer.
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        We start by including the necessary header files.
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        All of the asio classes can be used by simply including the <code class="computeroutput">"asio.hpp"</code>
        header file.
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<pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;iostream&gt;
#include &lt;asio.hpp&gt;
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        All programs that use asio need to have at least one <a class="link" href="../reference/io_context.html" title="io_context">io_context</a>
        object. This class provides access to I/O functionality. We declare an object
        of this type first thing in the main function.
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<pre class="programlisting">int main()
{
  asio::io_context io;
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        Next we declare an object of type asio::steady_timer. The core asio classes
        that provide I/O functionality (or as in this case timer functionality) always
        take a reference to an io_context as their first constructor argument. The
        second argument to the constructor sets the timer to expire 5 seconds from
        now.
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<pre class="programlisting">  asio::steady_timer t(io, asio::chrono::seconds(5));
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        In this simple example we perform a blocking wait on the timer. That is,
        the call to <a class="link" href="../reference/basic_waitable_timer/wait.html" title="basic_waitable_timer::wait">steady_timer::wait()</a>
        will not return until the timer has expired, 5 seconds after it was created
        (i.e. not from when the wait starts).
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        A timer is always in one of two states: "expired" or "not
        expired". If the <a class="link" href="../reference/basic_waitable_timer/wait.html" title="basic_waitable_timer::wait">steady_timer::wait()</a>
        function is called on an expired timer, it will return immediately.
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<pre class="programlisting">  t.wait();
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        Finally we print the obligatory <code class="computeroutput">"Hello, world!"</code> message
        to show when the timer has expired.
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<pre class="programlisting">  std::cout &lt;&lt; "Hello, world!" &lt;&lt; std::endl;

  return 0;
}
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